Julia (Judy) Bonds -- Mountain Heroine

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1 Página 1 de 7 Julia (Judy) Bonds -- Mountain Heroine Goldman Environmental Prize Winner for North America April 14, 2003 Photos by Vivian Stockman unless noted Goldman Environmental Prize News Charleston Gazette: Raleigh woman to get environmental award Goldman Prize Website: Coalminer s Daughter in West Virginia, Australian Aboriginal Grandmothers Among Winners of 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize Profile of Judy Bonds Photos of Judy WV Public Radio: Nobel for the Environment A Celebration of Global Congratulations Judy! Judy is Community Outreach Coordinator of the Coal River Mountain Watch, which is based in Whitesville, WV. The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's largest prize program honoring grassroots environmentalists. We at OVEC are so excited that Judy has won this prestigious prize! We've watched her develop over the years. It's clear she's the perfect person for this great honor, as she's not only a highly effective, courageous leader and organizer, but also a dynamic speaker and a team player truly committed to ending mountaintop removal. Judy is obviously motivated by a fierce, protective love for the Appalachian Mountains, which have nurtured six generations of her coal-mining family. She knows and lives the truth about mountaintop removal, and she speaks that truth despite intimidation and a torrent of public relations tripe from the coal industry. Her passion and bravery inspire others to speak up against coal's destruction of their communities, their waters and their mountains. Judy's winning of this prestigious prize is a dramatic underscoring of what we

2 Página 2 de 7 Environmentalism San Francisco Chronicle: Goldman Prize honors environmental crusaders Wall Street Journal Coal miner's daughter wins highest environmental award Coal Trade links to Hoover's On -Line with two stories about Judy Bonds (one from the Charleston Gazette story, and one from the Wall St. Journal.) all know--that mountaintop removal is the most devastating and egregious planned environmental assault in the United States. We certainly hope Judy's award focuses nationwide attention on this very sad and unnecessary byproduct of our nation's gluttonous energy appetite. As more people know that when they flip on the light switch they are helping to blow the tops off richly-forested mountains, perhaps more people will take greater efforts to conserve energy and to demand that elected leaders make an all-out push for establishing truly clean alternative energy systems nationwide. That would be the greatest prize Judy could ever receive. Below are some photos of Judy in action. UN Wire: Seven activists receive prize (scroll down) African Wildlife Foundation: 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Announced Seeing the Forest blog--scroll down...the writer hopes Judy runs for Senate! CBS Radio: FOE OF COAL MINING WINS GOLDMAN PRIZE (scroll down) Voice of America: Goldman Prize Honors Environmental Activists New Zealand: Right to fight acknowledged

3 Página 3 de 7 Friends of the Earth nominees win environmental prize (FOE asked OVEC to help provide MUCH background information on Judy Bonds and MTR.) Coalminer's Daughter Wins World'S Largest Environmental Award - The Julia Bonds Story France: Prix Goldman pour l environnement (scroll down) Sarasota Herald Tribune (AP): International grass roots activists honored with Goldman prize San Jose Mercury News (AP): International grass roots activists honored with Goldman prize KTVU (AP): Grandmothers Lead List Of Goldman Prize Winners Reuters: Seven activists win top environmental prize Judy Bonds (left) with Freda Williams. Behind them is one arm of Marfork Coal's massive Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment. This Massey Energy subsidiary's impoundment could hold up to five billion gallons of coal slurry, liquid waste left over from processing coal for market. The impoundment looms over the headwaters of the Coal River, near Whitesville, West Virginia. BBC: Award for US coalmine activist Environment News Service: Environmental Awards

4 Página 4 de 7 Celebrate Grassroots Action Grist Magazine: West Virginia activist Julia Bonds takes on mountaintopremoval mining Prize Fighters San Francisco Examiner: Activists honored with green award Oakland Tribune: Green Nobel Prizes to be given at S.F. ceremony American Communication Foundation on Judy: Personal Perseverance Africa OnLine: Goldman Prize honours environmental activists Seven Environmental Activists Honored With 'Green Nobels' German website, Brazilbased: Goldman-Preis an sieben Umweltschützer verliehen Judy speaks at a June 2002 press conference in Washington DC about Bush administration changes to the Clean Water Act that legalize illegal mountaintop removal activities. WCHS TV: Julia Bonds (scroll down) Argentina: SIETE ACTIVISTAS GANAN EL PREMIO MÁS IMPORTANTE

5 Página 5 de 7 DEL ECOLOGISMO Judy (left) and Freda Williams at a valley fill near Artie, West Virginia. Photo by Bob Gates

6 Página 6 de 7 Judy, front, and friends at a Massey Energy coal sludge impoundment.

7 Página 7 de 7 Judy as one of the crowd at a rally against a coal truck weight limit increase. Smart Counter Details OVEC Home Issues Contact Join Site Map